Table 1. Correlation between postoperative surgical site infection and the incidence of positive drain tip cultures from patients who underwent primary hip arthroplasty from 2005 to 2019.

The p-value was 0.0834 (p-value considered significant if p < 0.05), indicating that there was no statistically significant correlation.

*All SSIs diagnosed in this patient cohort were superficial in nature.

	Number of patients with SSIs*	Number of patients without SSIs	p-value
Positive cultures	1	11
Negative cultures	7	1093
Total	8	1104	0.0834